rreis:
Sacrilege! Can you give some details!!!

Reminds me (although different from) the remains of 8 Squdron Venom WR552 that still lie 2000m up in the Jebel Akhdar mountains of Oman. The pilot, F/L Owen Watkinson, is buried alongside his aircraft, where he crashed on 30 August 1958. Over the years the wreck has been recognisable as such, while the area was very difficult to access in terms of no modern road and the altitude, but since a new highway was constructed a couple of years ago I have seen people jumping up and down on what is left (essentially the engine and the centre section by now).
I do hope the P-40 can be recovered, but I also hope that the pilot’s remains can too. If anyone has access to the British Embassy out there, or needs my help as a medical anatomist with experience of forensics and osteoarchaelogy, please let me know.

WR552 on Jebel Akhdar

I don’t seem to have “caught” anything, Jim, but it is always stressful to think something might be in there.
We must take home that we can never be too careful.
Cheers

Threat

Jim, I also received an email message, purportedly from you, which gave me a threat warning! Looks like you’ve been phished. Check your antivirus, firewalls etc!

Further to GrahamSimons’ post, Brooklands at Sywell also operated a couple of Austers in the house colour scheme. I have just found a photo in which two are visible, taken at a Northamptonshire ATC parade at Sywell in, I think, 1959. One of them is J-1 G-AMTM, which I had the pleasure to fly in 1960.

I don’t know, but the advertisement gives the name of the seller, M Ducoin, with a phone number and email.

HP111’s photos brought back some memories of several visits I made to Cranfield in the 1960s and 1970. I note from my records that in November 1962 the P1121 was already there, as well as the Sherpa, SRA1, SK1 (G-AOBG) and Tempest LA607, among many others. There was also Avro 19 G-AHIC in use for the TSR2 programme (!). Both the Swift (rear fuselage) (WK248) as well as the Supermarine 545 (XA181) were both there (see also my post on the Cranfield 1971 Part 1 thread). The Me163 was 191659, but the old Air Ministry serial AM215 was still on the wing root.
In 1971 pieces of the Rotodyne and the Manuel Hawk glider were present.